Category: Able Americans

While New Yorkers enthusiastically embrace a new Medical Aid in Dying law, we’re seeing the catastrophic results of such laws on the other side of the Atlantic. In a commentary published at the New York Post, Able Americans Senior Fellow Mark Mostert, Ph.D. observes: ...

"The decision to move the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) to the Department of Health and Human Services deserves an open mind—not immediate opposition," writes Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley in a commentary ...

Postscript to the 11-Part Series "Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?" As we have seen, the seeds of assisted suicide and euthanasia were sown decades ago. However, the pro-death movement can no longer hide behind altruism and good faith. It ...

"Why are so many Americans still being told that disability means a life without opportunity?" In a commentary published at The Hill, Collette Divitto — a woman with Down syndrome who also serves as the founder and CEO of Collettey’s ...

Part 11 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. While the Netherlands and other European countries have descended slowly into the complete acceptance of medicalized killing, the slippery slope has become way steeper in Canada ...

Medicaid’s Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) is one of the most important sources of daily support for Americans with disabilities. It can provide personal care, respite for family caregivers, supported employment, assistive technology, home modifications, case management, behavioral supports, and ...

Disability issues rarely command sustained attention in Washington, but a new poll suggests that voters across the political spectrum share more common ground on these issues than many policymakers may realize. To better understand public attitudes toward disability policy, Able ...

Part 10 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As we have seen throughout this series, “survival of the fittest” ideas and eugenics have historically shaped the modern global movements promoting assisted suicide and ...

“Fraud must be rooted out. People with disabilities should not be uprooted with it.” Washington, D.C. — As the Trump Administration targets widespread fraud in government benefit programs, a new report from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Able ...

Part 9 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. As noted in Part 8, sentiment in the U.S. supporting assisted suicide and euthanasia grew exponentially after 2000. After the states of Oregon (1994) and ...